As I said yesterday, many in Germany blame Merkel because she allowed in a million people, mostly young men from N.Africa, Middle East, and Afghanistan, with little or no checks.

And, as I pointed out earlier, the main suspect entered the country prior to the German governments (Not Merkels, you will note. It was approved by the whole government, not one person) decision to let more refugees in. The right wing are just using this as an excuse to stir up more hate against immigrants and attempt to discredit the current administration.

As to the rest of your points. well, there may be something you say in that Farage may have attacked Cox after Cox criticised him for getting it wrong over Merkel. An attack by a politician, who should know better, on a member of the public who has suffered a tragedy. Whatever spin you you would care to put on it there is no excuse to lambaste someone who has had their family destroyed by extremism by suggesting they have links to extremist groups.

No excuse whatsoever.

DtG